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Blackboard Academic Suite "searchText" Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA29543
Release Date: 2008-04-03
Last Update: 2008-04-17
Popularity: 5,521 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Blackboard Academic Suite 6.x
Blackboard Academic Suite 7.x
Blackboard Academic Suite 8.x
Blackboard Learning and Community Portal Systems 6
Blackboard Learning System 6

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Description:
Duong Thanh has reported a vulnerability in Blackboard Academic Suite, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "searchText" parameter in webapps/blackboard/execute/viewCatalog is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in 6.3 versions prior to 6.3.1.683, 7.0 versions prior to 7.0.404.58, 7.1 versions prior to 7.1.467.35, 7.2 versions prior to 7.2.383.45, 7.3 versions prior to 7.3.216.0, and 8.0 versions prior to 8.0.184.0.

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